After reading Clark’s original novel and revisiting the two remakes, I finally solved a lot of mysteries about this sci-fi movie called the greatest science fiction movie in human history.
Now I will tell you this great and exciting story again.
Part 1 2001: The Odyssey and Rebirth of Mankind The
beginning of 2010 is the darkness in the background music for nearly 5 minutes. This is the first place that puzzled many fans.
A soybean oil gave the simplest but very reasonable explanation: there was a habit of movie screenings in theaters of that era. The first 5 minutes was the time for the audience to enter or go to the bathroom, just like we had 10 minutes before the film was officially screened today. advertise.
Another soybean oil understood: this blank symbolizes the nothingness at the beginning of the universe, like a fetus conceived in a mother's womb. This echoes with Bowman's transformation into a fetus at the end of the film, gazing at the earth from the universe.
However, it seems that fans who receive the first explanation are in the majority. :)
At the beginning of the official film, the story is about THE DAWN OF MAN. As can be seen from this title, this paragraph is about the time when humans are about to evolve from apes to humans. The last darkness before dawn.
Since there is no dialogue or subtitles in this paragraph, it is a scene of a group of orangutans crawling around, which is unavoidable.
If you have read the original book, you will suddenly become clear.
A group of apes, without arrogant fangs and claws, survived in such a harsh natural environment. Beware of attacks by large beasts such as leopards at all times. It is hard to win the humble food and face the looting of other ape-man races. Its difficult and dangerous living conditions are just as we see the animal world today.
In short, the apes at that time, our ancestors, were still animals that did not possess any evolutionary advantages and needed to compete with creatures that are far behind humans today.
At this time, a square black stone tablet appeared in front of their cave.
The apes showed horror about this, followed by curiosity. They stretched out their hands to the black stele cautiously.
The movie didn't describe the stone monument much, and then turned to a seemingly irrelevant picture. An ape seemed to be thinking about it for a long time, then hesitatingly picked up an animal bone and smashed it against the rest of the skeleton. Then, after discovering the power of this bone, they started hunting animals with the bone, and chasing away the same kind who snatched the water source.
This is the stele that opened up the mind of the apes. They learned how to use tools for the first time.
Those of us who have studied the theory of evolution know that the use of tools has become a watershed between the evolution of apes and other animals. From then on, human beings began to speed up on the road of evolution, and since then left other creatures far behind.
It can be said that this bone is of great significance. It symbolizes the beginning of a new world.
The novel describes this paragraph in more detail. Including the dance of some strange lights on the stone tablet, the apes were puzzled, but they were hypnotized, and they could vaguely feel that something deep in the brain began to change. After connecting for a few days of such baptism, finally, an ape picked up a bone. . .
The ape threw his bones into the sky in ecstasy.
As soon as the camera turns, the bones change into a long spaceship strolling leisurely in space.
This section has always been regarded as a classic in the history of film and has been talked about by fans.
This is indeed an epic montage.
What it brings to the audience is shock, it is tens of thousands of years, the magnificence and heroic feelings in the blink of an eye. Everyone who has seen this lens will be surging for the great evolution of mankind and the rapid progress of technology (from bones to spaceships).
The spacecraft, the earth, the moon, the planets, and the sun are quietly moving along their orbits in the melodious and magnificent music of "Blue Danube". Like a noble and elegant lady, pacing leisurely in the fresh universe like spring. And human beings are the creators of this spring, the most intelligent creatures in the universe. The apes, who drink blood and are not even proficient in brandishing bones, are able to fly freely in space and dine noble and elegantly in advanced spaceships. Human beings are so noble, so omnipotent.
Everything looks so perfect.
The spacecraft is docking with the lunar transit station. Here, DR.Floyd will transfer flights to the moon.
At the transfer station, Floyd met a Soviet colleague. From their conversation, we learned something about the purpose of this trip: something disturbing happened to the base on the moon. what's up? The US authorities remained silent. And DR.Freud was called to solve the problem.
DR. Floyd only learned after arriving at the moon base that, during daily exploration, the base accidentally discovered a large black stele that was buried under the moon four million years ago.
Here, the black stone stele appears for the second time. Even though human technology has been highly developed at this time, facing the huge mystery of the Black Stone Stele, they are still helpless, only knowing that it is constantly sending electromagnetic waves to Jupiter. The performance of human beings in front of Blackstone is no different from that of apes ten thousand years ago. In front of the black stone stele, human beings are still just a curious and naive baby.
So far, the story of DR.Freud in this episode ends here. He will solve the mystery for us in 2010.
The other spacecraft, Discovery, went to Jupiter as ordered to continue its mission to find the truth about the Black Stone Tablet.
There are three hibernating scientists in the spacecraft, the deputy captain POOL, the transmission station Bowman, and a supercomputer HAL9000, in charge of all the machinery and equipment on the spacecraft.
Humans can now make computers with human thinking ability. HAL can even perform flight missions on its own without being operated by humans.
Bowman and POOL take turns sleeping and working every day. Speaking of work, in fact, it means exercising, watching the TV from the earth, receiving access from the earth's media, playing chess with HAL, recording data, and ensuring the normal operation of the spacecraft.
Day is like a machine on a spaceship, swinging like a pendulum, without error, mechanical and indifferent.
Even the people on the spacecraft are mechanical and indifferent. Not only there was no dialogue between the two people, but even Bowman didn't show any expression when he read the birthday greetings of his parents from the earth.
It's not at all the old and beautiful images that are chattering and gagging in ordinary Hollywood movies.
On the contrary, HAL sometimes says something humane.
In fact, there are more descriptions of Bowman's psychological activities in the original book. Bauman is also scared and tender like a normal person.
In addition, DR. Floyd is even more interesting in the original book than in the film.
I think Lao Ku is deliberate. He drew out the human things in the film, leaving behind the cold machine and story development.
He wanted to express the indifference and even hostility between people, just like the US and the Soviet Union in the film. The modern competition and killing of mankind is no different from the fight for food among the apes tens of thousands of years ago.
Human beings have evolved for millions of years, and they are still bear-like, with little progress in human nature.
From here, we can also understand that although it is the same plot frame, what Lao Ku is going to tell is a completely Lao Ku story. It seems that Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" is also completely Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine", not Li Bihua's.
Such a great director. He can tell the same story, but he tells people different things.
Back to the story. At this time the situation appeared.
According to HAL's report, the calibration component AE35, which ensures the spacecraft to communicate with the earth, failed. After a brief discussion with POOL, Bowman went out of the cabin to replace the components.
However, after replacing the components, Bowman and POOL analyzed the AE35 that was reported by HAL and found that there was nothing wrong with it. At this time, the Earth Headquarters instructed them to replace the AE35 in order to continue to observe the cause of the failure during operation.
The two felt something was wrong. Bowman felt that there might be something wrong with the HAL, and he suggested that if something goes wrong, immediately cut off the storage unit of the HAL and interrupt its control.
And this information was sensitively captured by HAL.
This time the POOL was changed to exit the cabin, and Bowman was monitoring in the cabin.
At this moment, tragedy happened.
When POOL was working on the cantilever, the pod he drove out suddenly lost control and knocked POOL out. As the space suit was knocked out and leaked, POOL quickly lost his life.
Astonished Bowman drove the second escape pod, trying to bring POOL's body back.
However, when he returned to the main ship with POOL's body, HAL refused to open the door. At the same time, the hibernation system in the spacecraft was paralyzed. The three hibernating scientists, unfortunately, died before they even showed their faces.
(These three actors are really wronged. From beginning to end, they closed their eyes and pretended to be dead, without a single line.)
It turns out that the ultimate command set by HAL is to sail to Jupiter. If all human crew members on the spacecraft are killed, it can directly take over the spacecraft and complete the mission. At the same time, it must not conceal any information.
However, before departure, Washington gave HAL instructions again. Only the three scientists in hibernation knew about this mission. Bowman and POOL were only responsible for sailing the ship to the destination, and did not know the true purpose of the trip.
Under such contradictory instructions, HAL's logic was confused, because he had been ordered to not conceal any information.
As a result, HAL had to go back to the first, that is, all crew members were killed, and it directly took charge of the spacecraft. Therefore, HAL must kill everyone. . .
Bowman had to abandon the remains of POOL and enter the spacecraft through the emergency entrance.
As soon as he entered the spacecraft, Bowman broke into the engine room and pulled out the HAL memory sticks one by one. HAL was cut off.
Bowman continued his mission alone.
When approaching the end of Jupiter, the black stone once again appeared between Jupiter and Europa IO. This time, it was several kilometers long.
Bowman was driving the pod to find out on Blackstone, but he fell into the interstellar gate of the Blackstone.
The film is followed by a ten-minute impressionist image later criticized by countless fans.
This is an extremely bright universe. Countless magnificent and fantastic lights and shadows are violently intertwined, rushing towards the face. The universe has become distorted and crazy because of the abnormal light and weird colors.
Here I am reminded of what JUDY FOSTER said slowly after being excited and losing his voice when he came to the center of the universe by accidentally crossing space in CONTACT: Beautiful. It is so beautiful. No words. No words could describe it. They should have sent a poet...
What I want to say is: Bizzare. It is so bizzare. No words. No words could describe it. They should have sent a philosopher.
Bowman seems to be passing a huge rock and a canal Of the earth.
It seems to have returned to the moment when the earth was born. There is no life. There is no color. Barren and desolate.
This implies the reincarnation of life. Bowman returned to the beginning of life on earth.
Many people just pressed the fast forward button uncontrollably here. . . Or fall asleep.
This is ten minutes maddeningly and desperately. Dazzling colors, inexplicable plot, uncomfortable continuous and sharp background sounds.
If you are crazy, Lao Ku's purpose will be achieved.
He just wants us to be crazy, because Bowman in the story is far more crazy than us.
Then. . . Then the world suddenly quieted down (then you find that the ten minutes of madness did work, and you suddenly feel a relief, like Bowman). Bowman found himself in a gorgeous rococo room. Everything is exactly the same as on the earth, only the floor emits an unusual cold light, reminding of the isolated loneliness here.
This room in the original book is a much simpler and ordinary American hotel room, with a phone book and a TV. It is simulated by the agent in order to express goodwill.
However, seeing this claustrophobic room in the film, you are terrified for this exaggerated gorgeousness and no unnecessary emptiness. An inexplicable icy feeling came from the soles of the feet.
Here, through a kind of montage, the film allows Bowman to witness his life of getting old and finally dying in bed. Of course, from beginning to end, I never left this cold and empty room.
Only a few shots were completed. I have to praise Lao Ku’s imagination again. If his whole movie is to portray the naive side of human nature, like fear, then he did better than Clark. = In the
last shot, Bowman, who was dying on the bed, changed into a fetus curled up in the womb.
The fetus quietly stared at the earth illuminated by the sun in the dark universe. End of the show.
Here, Bowman became part of the supernatural intelligent body. It also symbolizes the rebirth of human beings after an evolutionary cycle. That is to completely transcend, stripped of the body, stripped of all high-tech, and returned to the simplest but also the most intelligent existence in the universe.
This is what the title of this film A SPACE ODYSSEY wants to explain. The evolution and development of mankind over millions of years is like a magnificent journey, full of hardships and dangers, as well as the joy of reclamation. In the end, mankind will be able to glimpse the deepest mystery of the universe and be reborn from it.
What is Blackstone?
Blackstone is an energy body of ultimate wisdom that extracts pure consciousness. It exists out of the physical body and can travel freely in the universe.
They are neither good nor evil. They just exist calmly and eternally, looking high at the universe with the existence of surpassing all life forms, and walking around in the universe, looking for a planet with life to stop, and helping them take the first step toward wisdom.
It sounds like the Black Stone Tablet has risen to the height of God. Absolutely black, absolute place (no matter what tool is used to measure, how many digits are accurate, the stone tablet is accurate 1:4:9) But who can say that God does not exist?
At the end of the novel, Bowman, after becoming a star child, travels through the universe like energy, exploring the meaning and mission of his life. Later, he appeared physically in 2010.
I think these all sound like the people described by Liu Cixin in "Ball Lightning" exist in a quantum state. On the one hand, it is a wave, so it is omnipotent; on the other hand, in the case of probability, it can also appear in the state of particles, reverting to a human form.
The difference between Lao Ku and the original book is that he wanted to use the black stone stele, such as the perspective of God, to depict human beings. Indifference, greed, killing. He took away the things of human nature, and created an extreme but cold machine and highly intelligent and developed human society. Human beings became the only intelligent life on earth because of their knowledge and use of tools, but in the end they also perished because of excessive reliance on tools.
Compared with the rich dialogue in 2010, the full character of the characters, and the cheerful soundtrack, in 2001 there were very few dialogues and the characters were cold, and there were often some creepy soundtracks, such as when the black stone tablet appeared several times. .
In addition to the use of "Blue Danube" in the film's soundtrack several times, there are also several uses of "Zaratustra Says" when the plot has undergone major changes.
"So Zarathustra Says" is Nietzsche's most important philosophical work. In this book, Nietzsche elaborated on his superman doctrine, thinking that human beings will eventually be reduced to the most primitive innocence and exist in the form of superman. The super is the super super.
Richard Strauss made such a symphony to pay tribute to Nietzsche. This piece is magnificent and solemn, and it is a perfect match for this movie.
If 2001 is a philosophical film that makes people unable to breathe, then 2010 will be a good storytelling film. It is more like a suspense movie, where the mystery will be solved.
Part II 2010: The beginning of life
2010 has an extraordinary meaning to me personally.
I had a chance to see 2010 on CCTV6 in the second year of high school. I was shocked for some reason, and it had a very important impact on my life. Although I did not become Yang Liwei because of this, SPACE still became one of my few hobbies.
2010 still uses "The Saying of Zarathustra" as the opening song. The subtitles typed at the beginning succinctly summarized the ins and outs of the task in the previous episode. Even viewers who have not watched 2001 can understand the plot of this episode without hindrance.
Bowman disappeared in the Blackstone Tablet during the mission in 2001. Before he disappeared, he left only the inexplicable words "My God, it's full of stars". All the secrets were suspended on the Discovery. And the best way to unlock the secret is to go to Discovery again.
Nine years have passed. At this time, the world has entered the Cold War pattern, and the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union has become intensified. Among them, the space race is the representative. They are all building their own spacecraft so that they can once again go to Jupiter for scientific expeditions.
The Soviet spacecraft, Leonov, will reach Jupiter more than a year earlier than the United States.
This means that the Soviets will enter Discovery ahead of schedule. The secrets on Discovery will be obtained by the Soviets, if its information remains. The Soviets, on the one hand, were afraid of the bizarre encounter of Discovery nine years ago, and worried that they would repeat the same mistakes; on the other hand, they were unfamiliar with the structure of the spacecraft that Discovery built for the United States. They needed the cooperation of experts who built Discovery.
The two countries reached an agreement after weighing their respective pros and cons. It was decided to send three Americans aboard Leonov to go to Discovery with the Soviets. Scientific discovery sharing.
The three Americans are: DR. Floyd, the planner of the Discovery project; Curnow, the engineer who built the Discovery; and Chandra, the designer of the genius computer HAL.
What is interesting is that the relationship between the Soviet crew and the American crew on the spacecraft became the epitome of the relationship between the Soviet government and the American government at that time. They went from being wary at first to being hostile, then trusting each other, and finally even embracing affectionately. You can see the development of the relationship between the two superpowers in the world at that time.
Leonov accidentally found signs of life while passing Io Europa. They detected chlorophyll!
This is really an exciting discovery. Chlorophyll means the existence of carbon base, which means that life is sprouting on Europa.
Europa is a Mercury covered by glaciers, extremely cold and without oxygen, and previous surveys of Europa have found nothing interesting. This naturally reminds the crew of an accident nine years ago. That is the discovery of the black stone stele. Will the Blackstone be connected to life on Europa?
The Leonov put down a small detector at Europa. Just as the detector was pursuing where the chlorophyll was, and the truth was about to be revealed in front of the camera, a light ball suddenly flew out and crashed into the detector and disappeared into the vast universe.
Everyone missed the truth.
Floyd believes that this is some kind of force warning them: stay away from Europa.
Although unwilling, the mission landmark of this trip is Discovery after all, and the fuel is not enough to allow them to stay more. The Leonov had no choice but to treat Europa as an unrelated episode and continue to march towards Jupiter.
Insert a paragraph here. In the original book, it was originally a Chinese-launched spacecraft, Qian Xuesen, that boarded Europa. In other words, when the Americans and the Soviets made their own calculations and asked the astronauts of the two countries to take the Soviet spacecraft to Jupiter, it was unexpected that the Chinese also launched their first at this time without any warning. A self-developed long-distance spacecraft. The destination is also Jupiter. And it reached Europa one step earlier than the Soviet spacecraft.
Due to technical problems, Qian Xuesen plans to stop on Io Europa for a while, collect fuel, and then use Europa's gravity to gain acceleration to reach Jupiter.
While the United States and the Soviet Union were worried that they would be the first to board by the Chinese, they unexpectedly received a distress radio wave from the Qian Xuesen.
The radio said that the Qian Xuesen was attacked by an unknown creature. Said it was an attack, but it was actually a large creeping creature that seemed attracted by the lights on the Qian Xuesen, desperately trying to get closer. The spacecraft was crushed because of its size.
This creature has no eyes, it should be living in ice water, and has never seen a light. So when the Qian Xuesen approached, it approached like moths. But because it itself could not survive on land, it died shortly after crushing the spacecraft.
All crew members were killed. It was a dying scientist who sent the radio wave. He himself died shortly after sending the radio wave.
Unlike the terrifying and aggressive alien creatures in the alien, Clark's imagination of alien creatures does not have active aggressiveness, and lives out of biological instinct. Speaking of it, isn't it the same for humans?
Clark also explored the possibility of such creatures in the book. One of the supporting evidence is that organisms have been found in certain submarine volcanic craters on Earth. This is a depth that humans have never reached before. The oxygen is extremely thin, and there are intermittent eruptions of submarine volcanoes, the temperature is extremely high, and the living conditions are extremely harsh. However, even in such an environment where it is impossible for species to live, there are still fishes living here. Since there are literally such species living on the earth, maybe on other planets, where life cannot be conceived according to our human definition of living environment, there are also life unknown to us. It seems that Chandra was excited when faced with people's criticism of HAL's mistakes: Don't worry about the carbon-based silicon-based, we are all creatures with life and emotion.
In the face of nature, human beings still know too little and too little.
Well, now that the Leonov has successfully approached Jupiter, found the Discovery, and docked with it.
A giant black stone monument about 2 kilometers long, as it was nine years ago, is suspended not far away, lying between Jupiter and the satellite IO, staring silently at this icy universe.
Chandra successfully activated HAL and amnesticized it after going crazy.
There are no secrets on Discovery. All the answers disappeared with Bowman. Fortunately, there is still enough fuel on the Discovery to launch when the Earth reaches the best orbit with Jupiter. In this way, Discovery can return to Earth safely.
This day will come in two months.
At this time, at the far end of the universe. Earth.
Housewife Betty is watching boring news on TV at home. An expression of bitterness and hatred indicates that maybe her heart is not as spacious and bright as the big house she lives in. Maybe she is caring about someone.
The TV picture was suddenly distorted, and a human face appeared on the screen. Her ex-husband, Bowman, who has been gloriously sacrificed on the national archives.
Bowman on the screen looked at Betty affectionately, greeted her, and said to her that I love you. Bowman said that he had come to say goodbye to her. He is in a wonderful place now, and something wonderful is about to happen. He must go back.
Bowman disappeared just as Betty had a thousand words in his throat and couldn't speak.
Still the earth. A hospital in the United States.
Bowman's mother Jesse received treatment and care here. She is in a deep coma when she is getting older.
Suddenly, she sat up as if being called in some way. The comb next to it slowly flew up, as if an invisible person was holding the comb and gently combing her white hair. Jesse, who had lost her intelligence, muttered happily to the air combing her hair.
A few minutes later, the nurse found that Jesse had lost any signs of life. She was holding a comb and seemed to be sleeping sweetly. A face full of tenderness and satisfaction.
This is all about Bowman, who has been reborn as the ultimate wisdom body, returns to Earth, wanting to see those he loves and bid them farewell. After that, he was going to continue his lofty mission.
Some wonderful things are about to happen. Bowman said.
Now the Soviet captain of Leonov decided to send a national crew member to drive the separation capsule to the large stone stele for further exploration.
As soon as this crew member touched the stele, another ball of light galloped out, engulfing the separation capsule. Leonov sacrificed a soldier.
Could it be that the black stele is warning people to stay away from Jupiter?
At this time, on the distant earth, the two superpowers are already at war, and the war is about to start. The governments of the United States and the Soviet Union sent instructions to the Leonov, ordering them to stay on their own country’s spacecraft. Cut off the air corridor connecting the two spacecrafts, and do not contact or move around without permission. Because at this time, the two spaceships are about to become independent territories of the two countries.
Just as everyone was at a loss, one day Floyd was informed by HAL that someone had sent him a text message. HAL does not know who the sender is, because his camera did not capture any movement.
This briefing says that you must leave Jupiter within two days. Message sender: Bowman.
Bowman is now a purely conscious energy body, and naturally he can go everywhere. He went directly to the HAL circuit to talk to Floyd. (As a quantum state person really benefits greatly)
In order to convince Floyd, Bowman appeared in a particle state! For a while, he appeared with a young face in a pre-crash spacesuit, then he became an old man with black clothes and crane hair, and finally a transparent fetus wrapped in a womb.
This also shows that when human beings regenerate the ultimate intelligence body, the physical body has become a meaningless existence. The reincarnation of life is only an instant matter, and it is also a meaningless cycle. Only consciousness is eternal. (Like one again)
You must leave here within two days. Some wonderful things are about to happen. This is the last time I have been allowed to contact you. From now on you take care of yourself. So much. Bowman disappeared after speaking this quack.
Floyd chose to believe in Bowman. Regardless of the ban, he went to the Leonov to persuade them to leave together. Because before the arrival of the best launch orbit, the fuel of the two spacecrafts is not enough to support the return journey alone. Floyd suggested using Discovery as a launch base and tying the two spaceships together. Let Discovery ignite and lift off, and then separate after reaching the required acceleration. Leonov can return to Earth, and Discovery will be destroyed.
Our government is an idiot, so we don’t necessarily do the same thing as an idiot. Floyd told everyone.
The effect is that people on earth do not cherish the gifts they receive from the Creator and kill each other. They don't even know what they are doing. And we know that life is so hard to come by. We should cherish each other, coexist peacefully, and march towards our unknown universe together.
The most critical question now is how to tell HAL to make it return ahead of schedule. Because HAL clearly knows that the spacecraft is activated at this time, because the orbit is wrong, the fuel cannot support the return to Earth. And it controls everything about the spacecraft.
Everyone decided to let Chandra, who HAL trusts most, deceive HAL by saying that Discovery needs to go to a nearby imaginary space station, where it waits for further fuel supplies.
I was moved and broken by this passage.
For Chandra, HAL is like his child. Now he wants him to deceive the child, destroying himself in exchange for the escape of his human father. For him, this is so difficult.
Sure enough, during the countdown to the ignition, HAL asked Chandra several times if he wanted to stop the ignition, because according to his information, there was no new space station nearby. HAL thinks this is a wrong voyage.
At the same time, everyone discovered that the huge black stele that had been quietly lying nearby had disappeared. A strange little black spot appeared on Jupiter.
The small black spot expands at an alarming rate. According to the lens of the detector, everyone saw a horrible scene: countless black stone monuments of equal size formed a whirlpool. As far as this vortex reaches, all matter ceases to exist, and is all drawn into this black bottomless pit. Jupiter is undergoing fusion. And the number of this black stone tablet doubles every two minutes.
Here, on the Discovery, Chandra kept coaxing HAL into the countdown. In the final countdown, Chandra finally couldn't control his heart and told the truth to HAL.
The Leonov needs the help of Discovery to return to Earth.
What will happen if I light the fire? HAL asked curiously. Discovery may be destroyed.
What happens if I don’t fire? We will be destroyed. Chandra answered after being silent.
After a few seconds of silence, HAL's quiet and gentle voice sounded again: I understand. The ignition counts down to 1 minute and 50 seconds. . .
HAL agreed to continue the ignition, everyone was relieved, and Chandra was too excited to speak. At this moment, his silicon-based child, HAL, has the emotions that carbon-based creatures have. He is even braver and greater than the cowardly, greedy human companion.
Dr. Chandra, can I dream? HAL asked curiously like a child.
Earlier on the earth, HAL’s sister SAL gave her a power-off test in Chandra and comforted SAL. This is the same as that of human beings asleep, and SAL asked the same question. Can i dream? Chandra replied casually at the time, of course.
And this time, Chandra replied in tears, I don't know. Because he can no longer lie to such a child.
Discovery ignites. The Leonov left the Discovery and ignited, entered the established orbit, and embarked on a journey home.
Jupiter, not far behind, collapsed violently under the erosion of the black stele, and finally transformed into a star in the final big bang.
Just before the big bang, in the empty Discovery, HAL heard Bowman again. Bowman was talking to him directly inside his circuit. They can all communicate electronically now.
Hello, Bowman. HAL greeted happily.
Hello, HAL. You did a great job. Now I want you to work with me to fulfill a higher mission. Before you set off, I want you to aim the AE35 at the earth again and send the following set of messages without interruption.
They will appear again in later novels. Look, this is the birth of the ultimate wisdom body again. Regardless of whether it is a carbon-based human or a silicon-based computer, in the end, they all exist in pure consciousness in a detached form.
This set of information
looks like this: All these worlds are yours except Europa.
Attemp no landing there.
Use them together.
Use them in peace. The
world is yours, except Europa. Please don't disturb them. You can develop and use all the resources of the universe to your heart's content. Use together, use peacefully.
At this point, the truth became clear. The black stone stele is the ruler of the universe and God. They carefully care for every budding planet, give them light and open their minds.
The chlorophyll found on Europa before was just a small grass of life growing on that planet. So God wants mankind to leave Europa and even Jupiter. Because they are going to turn Jupiter into a star.
With stars, the world has light and heat. With these, oxygen will come, spring will come, and life will blossom and bear fruit. Dawn has arrived. Eventually, life on this planet will evolve into a mature and rational high-level intelligent creature just like human beings.
This process may take millions of years, or it may be longer, or it may not take that long. But humans know that they are about to have new partners. They are no longer alone. Perhaps it can also become more mature. Although this process is long, it is worth looking forward to.
Witness the birth of life. These are the wonderful things Bowman said.
Life is so difficult and difficult (who can say that the scene on Europa did not happen when the earth opened up), we should respect and cherish the existence of every life, even if it is not our kind , Such as the alien creatures on Europa, and even the machine HAL.
In the end, Floyd sent a text message to his son who was far from home on the earth before the hibernation of the voyage. With this newsletter, we can see the earth bathed in warm morning light. The sun is just like its posture at the beginning of the earth's formation over a million years, dignified and majestic projecting the light that life longs for on the earth. It has been silently illuminated like this for millions of years. At the other end of the sky, a small sun looks more like a bright Venus star, also shining a faint but bright light in the sky. This is the Jupiter Sun.
Because Jupiter is far enough from the earth and is much smaller than the sun, the earth can survive safely in the presence of two suns.
Floyd said to his son in the newsletter:
Dear Christoph, this is the last time I will talk to you in a long time to come. I really want to express everything that has happened recently, and maybe leave it to historians to do research in the future.
Historians’ books would say that when the president of the United States looks out of the window of the White House, and the president of the Soviet Union looks out of the window of the Kremlin, they will see a new sun in the distance. They will read the information sent back by Discovery and learn something from it. Because they will eventually recall their warships and aircraft.
I am about to fall asleep. I will dream of you and your mother. In the dream, I will know that you are all safe and free from fear. We have seen the birth of life. Perhaps this is exactly what happened on Earth many, many years ago. Or, completely different.
I still don't know what the stele is. Perhaps it is a collection of many things, a representative of wisdom far beyond ours. Its shape represents something without shape.
Your children and grandchildren will be born in a world with two suns. They would not know what the world would look like without these two suns. You can tell them that when the sky was dark, there were no bright stars, and people were afraid of darkness.
You can also point to the stars and tell them that there is life there. One day, when a child born under the old sun meets a child born under the new sun, I think we will be very good friends.
You can tell your children and grandchildren, if one day all of us look up to the sky and realize that we are just a passerby in this world, we have already accepted the warning from the true master of this world.
The last few pictures of the film are very beautiful. It depicts the picture on Europa.
There are still glaciers and mountains on Europa, a scene of extreme cold and depression. But not far away, a dazzling star is pouring its sacred heat onto this land. That is the new sun. Not far away, a small Venus-like star was also shining. That is the old sun.
Several lightning bolts appeared in the turbulent sky. It means that the atmosphere has appeared. The sky was shone into a beautiful red by the new sun. In this morning light, a cluster of plants stubbornly grows to meet the sun.
The lake appeared. The forest appeared.
The entire universe is still pitch black, only the background sky is reflected dark red. The cold light of the new sun shone on the lake.
A black stone monument stands in the middle of the dark lake. Silent but solemn.
Perhaps the first creature on the planet is swimming under the seemingly peaceful lake. They encountered the stone stele under the water, stared at it curiously for a long time, and then carefully extended its tentacles. . .
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